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Published on

09 Jul 2008

Abstract

Prof. Rao, the
chairman of the Science Advisory Council to India’s prime minister is
the keynote speaker at Purdue University’s Discovery Lecture Series
event on June 18, outlining how India is reaching out to the
international research community. Dr. Gail Cassell, Eli Lilly and Co.‘s
vice president for scientific affairs and the company’s distinguished
research scholar for infectious diseases will then give a presentation
on how the United States is responding to the need for more college
graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and
mathematics. Dr. Arabinda Mitra, executive director of the Indo-U.S.
Science and Technology Forum, also will discuss funding opportunities
for bilateral research activities between the United States and India.

It is instructive and useful to examine the state of science in the country after 60 years of independence. What one sees is a curious mixture of successes and disappointments, and yet, one cannot but marvel at the great imagination of Pandit Nehru and the Parliament for having committed India...